Friday, March 3, 2017

Hi
lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Janie DeVos and her new
book, “The Art of Breathing”! For other
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latest book, “The Art of Breathing”!! Also,
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The Art of Breathing

by Janie DeVos

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GENRE: Contemporary Romance

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BLURB:

From
author Janie DeVos comes a poignant and richly detailed novel set in 1950s
North Carolina, where one young woman struggles to save her own life—and finds
the strength to truly live it.

When
Kathryn Cavanaugh steps over the threshold of the Pelham Sanatorium in 1954,
she has no idea when, or if, she will ever leave it again. Despite the rise of
promising new treatments, Tuberculosis is still feared and often fatal. But
twenty-four-year-old Kate has proven her resilience before, leaving her Blue
Ridge Mountain home for a very different life in the city with her ambitious
attorney husband, Geoffrey. For the sake of her family, especially her young
son, she’s determined to get healthy again.

The
sanatorium is a strange battlefield, with every patient fighting for survival
amidst a numbing routine of tests, treatment, and enforced rest. Kate quickly
finds camaraderie among the women on her ward—and a growing kinship with fellow
patient Philip McAllister. As weeks pass, the hospital’s confines come to offer
more independence than Geoffrey’s preoccupation with status ever allowed. And
with this surprising new discovery comes the courage to contemplate the choices
she has made—and, perhaps, the chance to breathe freely at last…

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:

“Grandma,
what’s a shi . . . shiva . . . ?” Donnie had turned around in his seat and was
hanging over the back of it.

Mama,
choosing to ignore Daddy, began to describe it. “Honey, a shivaree happens
after a wedding takes place to let the bride and groom know that everybody
approves of the marriage. We’ll sneak up on them at Uncle Prescott’s house,
after the ceremony, and we’ll bang pots and pans, and holler and sing, and make
a big ol’ ruckus—just to let them know that we’re tickled Glory’s a part of the
family now.”

“Sure
hope we don’t catch ’em in a most compromising position.”

Daddy
snickered. “I can just see it now: We’ll be sneaking up to their window, real
quiet-like, and before we can make any racket, we’ll hear Prescott shouting to
the rafters, Lord, God a’mighty! Glory hallelujah!”

Daddy
and I roared with laughter, while Mama, trying her hardest to be stern, could
barely contain herself either. “Oh, for heaven’s sake, Jack! You behave
yourself, you hear me!” Then she couldn’t hold back any longer and joined us as
we laughed so hard we cried.

Oh,
it was good to be home!

“Mama
. . .” I tried to move on to another subject, but each time I did, we started
laughing again. Finally, I was able to ask the question.

“What’s
going on with Ditty? I haven’t heard from him since Christmas, and every time
I’ve called his place, there’s no answer. I’ve even left messages with Jean to
have him call me, but she’ll say something like Well, I will if I see him, real
mysterious-like. When I ask her if there’s something going on with him, she’ll
say she doesn’t know nothin’ about no one. Says she’s just the mill’s secretary
and that she minds her own business. So, what’s going on with him? Is he all
right?”

“We
don’t know,” Daddy quietly answered and all the humor suddenly evaporated. “We
haven’t seen him in weeks. Last we heard he was over in Lost Cove.”

“Lost
Cove! What in the world is he doing over there?”

Donnie
was watching and listening hard to our conversation. Mama knew the subject was
one that needed to be discussed without him, so she quickly shifted the
conversation. “How ’bout we save this talk for the front porch, later on.”
Then, “Donnie, after we eat some supper, we’ll go do somethin’ fun. Sound
good?”

I
suggested that we go down to the creek and try catching a few trout. “Or would
you rather go over to the orchard’s shop and get some of those good soft
peppermints that your grandma loves more than life itself?”

“Peppermints!”
both Donnie and Mama shouted in unison. And though the atmosphere in the truck
was light once again, I was fairly certain there was a storm brewing on the
horizon and my brother was in the eye of it.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Janie DeVosis
a native of Coral Gables, Florida. She attended Florida State University, then
worked in the advertising industry for over a decade, including radio, cable
television, public relations and advertising firms. Though her career changed
over the years, one thing didn’t—her love of writing. She is an award winning
children's author. Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees is her adult debut.

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